Live Webinar May 3rd, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Project estimation can be a game where opportunity, risks, rules, probabilities, skill, and even luck determines success. In fact, it almost sounds like poker!

Presenter: Carol Dekkers PMP P.Eng. CMC (LinkedIn profile @caroldekkers) author of The IT Measurement Compendium is a Project Manager, Management Consultant  and a Professional Engineer who bridges the gap between technology experts (engineers, scientists, computer specialists, etc) and the non-technical personel. Carol is a highly sought after international expert whose keynote presentations are engaged by international project management and quality conferences throughout the world. Carol effectively demonstrates how to use communication effectively to bring the true value of technology to life through articulate presentations, effective collaboration, and team processes that increase the success of high tech projects.

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Estimation Poker:
Bluffing (And Winning) With Metrics

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Live Webinar – April 26th, 2016 – 10:00 am to 11:30 am EDT
Presented by:  The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 1.5 Hours -1.5 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

Teamability^®:
The Ability To Connect With Others
To Form A Productive Team

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph,
But a team is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rich Karlgaard, Publisher of Forbes Magazine, recently wrote an article entitled “Teams Matter. Talent is Not Enough.”

In essence, it is a challenge for executives to find and exploit the “magic” of team synergy.

The metrics of teaming now exist!  Even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. Teaming metrics are key to improving selection, increasing engagement, and vastly reducing new-hire turnover, all with measurable business value.

With TGI Teamability:
PMs will be able to create extremely strong teams.

In this introduction you will learn:

• A completely new technology will help you understand why talented, experienced people do not always “team” well with others.
• How to reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting,
  • Metrics and methods that measure and predict “teaming” behaviors.
  • How to effectively analyze and solve team performance problems.
• How to deliver significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team
  • The ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams
  • Behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities
• How it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their “Role”).

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity to help you understand the strengths of your team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful!

Edmonton PM

This program has been approved for 2 General recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification. PMPs can earn two Cat B credits for this two hour course. In addition, you will be offered the opportunity to have your own Teamability® experience!

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An Introduction To Teamability:
Understanding The Natural Roles That Your Team Members Best Fit
With A Role Based Approach

Online Webinar
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hrs  2 Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free  PDU / CDU

Are You Too Soft?

Most Project Manager/Business Analyst leaders are not consistently willing to make the tough and unpopular project-related decisions, even though their instincts warn them that they are not taking the most effective action.

Witness examples of PM/BA actions (or inactions) that are indicative of too-soft behaviour.  Will you recognize familiar behaviour?

You do not have to be rude, insensitive, arrogant, or a bully to avoid being too soft.

None of these attributes are acceptable …ever! Come prepared to rethink what constitutes effective project management and business analyst leadership behaviour.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• How to become a more effective leader
• How to avoid being too soft
• How to become a more effective leader

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Download – Power Snippets
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Neal Whitten PMP (LinkedIn profile) President Neal Whitten Group, is a Keynote speaker, trainer, consultant, mentor, and best-selling author in the areas of leadership, project management, & employee development with 35+ years of front-line project management experience. A writer for professional magazines including PM Network® magazine.

Neal is also the author of several books including:

• Neal Whitten’s No-Nonsense Advice For Successful Projects
• Neal Whitten’s Let’s Talk! More No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success
• The Gift of Wisdom: Lessons for a Lifetime
• Becoming An Indispensable Employee in a Disposable World
• Managing Software Development Projects: Formula for Success, New Edition
• The Enterprize Organization: Organizing Software Projects for Accountability and Success

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The #1 Reason Why PM’s & BA’s Fail:
BEING TOO SOFT!

Live Webinar – May 2nd, 2016, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
By: RefineM Project Management Consulting (Rep# 3390)

In this Lunch and Learn, NK Shrivastava describes advanced techniques in scope and change management.

• Learn how to go beyond the basics of scope and change management by using a requirements traceability matrix (RTM).
• Learn how to enhance change management in order to better control the scope of their projects.

Leave this webinar with a better idea of how to take scope & change management to the next level.

Presenter: NK Shrivastava (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, SPC, is CEO of RefineM LLC and an experienced and certified Project Management Consultant, Risk Management Professional, and Agile Coach with over 25 years of experience in project management. NK is an experienced instructor/trainer on project management and Agile topics and specializes in project management fundamentals, risk management, and project recovery.

As a reminder, anyone who attends three Lunch & Learn webinars in a row will be eligible for a Star Attendee prize drawing of a $10 Amazon gift card.

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Advanced Scope & Change Management Techniques

Live Webinar May 3rd, 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar May 3rd, 2016, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

• Google has PageRank,
• Amazon and Netflix have their recommendation engines,
• Airlines have their seat pricing systems,
• Supermarkets their targeted coupons

All are examples of algorithms driving revenue and differentiation in businesses today.

Algorithms are a way to encapsulate knowledge, expertise and insight in a form that enables ease of use and productization.

In a world increasingly awash in data from billions of connected devices and sensors, algorithms add the speed and scale to accelerate digital business to the next level.

Algorithmic business is about the systematic use of these capabilities to not just operate the business efficiently (although they do that exceptionally well), but also to deliver new revenue streams, products and competitive advantage for the organization.

Building on existing disciplines like data analytics, forecasting, process optimization and automation, with a growing helping of machine learning, artificial intelligence and smart machines embracing algorithmic business will be pivotal to success over the next decade.

Stephen Prentice (Gartner bio) VP & Gartner Fellow will help you understand:

• What algorithmic business is and what it deliver
• Essential skills needed and where to find them
• New and disruptive business models you may face as a result of algorithmic business

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Response
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Driving Differentiation With Algorithmic Business